Michigan · Private foundation
Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $178k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $229k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $168k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $163k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $157k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $90k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $85k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $79k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $70k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $59k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generous Hands Inc | $102,515 | 9 | 8% |
| Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes Inc | $63,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Community Healing Centers | $51,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Sw Michigan | $41,522 | 9 | 2% |
| Mattawan Food Packs | $39,993 | 5 | n/a |
| Ministry With Community Inc | $24,565 | 9 | 0% |
| Kalamazoo Civic Theatre | $24,188 | 9 | 0% |
| South Michigan Food Bank | $21,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Animals Best Friend Fund Inc | $20,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Kalamazoo County Humane Society | $18,050 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($213k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · United Way of South Central Michigan · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Molitor Family Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation with peer funders
About Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation
- How much does Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation give?
- Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $177,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (31%), Animals (17%), Health (15%).
- Who are Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Generous Hands Inc ($103k), Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes Inc ($64k), Community Healing Centers ($51k).
- Does Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kalamazoo Community Foundation, Tyler-Little Family Foundation, Irving S Gilmore Foundation.
- Where is Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation based?
- Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation is based in MI.
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